CCRP has become Tom Del Beccaro’s Mickey Mouse Club
January 4, 2008
Who’s the leader of the Club that doesn’t care about the rank or file?
It’s Tom Del Beccaro, Chairman of the Contra Costa County Republican Central Committee, who, for all intents and purposes, has hijacked the party apparatus for his own self-aggrandizement.
The most recent e-mail blast from the Contra Costa Republican Party presents another sad illustration of what happens when a weak non-profit board and constituency that does not know how—or care— to provide appropriate organizational leadership, governance, or oversight, can be commandeered by an unchecked, enterprising chairperson bent on appropriating the organization’s resources willy-nilly to benefit personal agenda.
This newsletter isn’t at all about CCRP news. The first thing you see is Tom’s photo, not the picture of the new temporary and part-time Executive Director. The top news is not about upcoming events, but an appeal to leave the site and click through to the Chairperson’s personal website that hawks highly questionable predictions about the 2008 presidential campaign (he predicts Hillary is too formidable and will be the inevitable Democrat nominee) and his book that is still not available on Amazon despite the claims of his toadies in November that it would become a best seller overnight.
This is worse than sad. It is embarrassing. It’s time Tom’s Mickey-Mouse Club, doing business as the CCRP, find some weaker constituency to prey on. Hopefully, it will not be the California Republican Party.
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Tom Del Beccaro has succeeded in making the CCRP more of a cult than a political party. He has chased off many good people with his temper tantrums, his rudeness, and his insistance that it is “My way or the highway!” People hang around because they are his toadies, they want something from him due to his position, or they are just good Republicans and put up with Temperamental Tom in order to serve the party.
Dang.
I thought TDB was the second comin.’
I’ll get apicture of him with Goldberg for ya.